This paper seeks to expand our empirical knowledge by describing and analyzing the processes and actors, including Eritrean families both in the diaspora and in Eritrea, involved in the trans-national networks supporting and enabling the smuggling and trafficking of Eritreans through the Sinai to Israel. We focus only on the Sinai route, although migration from Eritrea also occurs south to other parts of Africa, west through Sudan to Libya, and east across the Red Sea.